Factors that Enable Knowledge Management in Information Technology Organizations - a Statistical Study

Abstract

In the today's world, the markets, products, technologies, competitors, laws and even whole societies change rapidly, continuous innovation, and the knowledge and organizational learning processes which sustain such innovation, have become major sources of competitive advantage. Knowledge Management has with itself the proven concepts to feed this growing demand in creating the timely deliverables to the Information Technology industry. To explore this, we conducted an empirical study among the software developers present in the MultiNational Software Companies present across South India. Our results show that, in all the organizations there are KM efforts and it fosters the software development process. This has been realized by identifying the various factors that catalyze the knowledge management in day-to-day activities. Keywords: Knowledge Management, KM Factors etc.,